Spectator articles from November 2004

Spectator archives from November 2004

Portrait of the week.
November 6, 2004... The people of the north-east of England voted in a referendum on whether they wanted a regional assembly; they didn't. Forty-seven Labour rebels voted for a complete ban on parents' smacking when the Commons passed a Bill limiting chastisement...

Brown's tax trick.
November 6, 2004... While the world's eyes have been on polling booths in the back streets of Ohio, the British political scene may appear to have been becalmed. But it isn't so. In the past week a couple of notable salvoes have been fired in the direction of the...

Diary.
November 6, 2004... On Friday morning I was drinking a cappuccino in the Piazza del Gesu in Naples with my friend Angus. The sky was free from clouds, the streets were free from other tourists, and no one seemed to care that I had parked my car illegally, facing...

Blair helped Bush win, and he will be rewarded.(Politics)
November 6, 2004... Not long before midnight on Tuesday, a mood of dogmatic certitude overcame the throng of British MPs, ministers and journalists assembled at the traditional election-night party at the American embassy in Grosvenor Square. We knew that John...

The Spectator's notes.
November 6, 2004... 'It's that Florida 2000 feeling all over again', said the BBC anchorman at breakfast on Wednesday. It wasn't. George Bush was well ahead in the popular vote nationally and seemed set to win even without Ohio. The only similarity with Florida...

The Blairs.
November 6, 2004... WHERE ARE THEY NOW? BACK IN THE EARLY '90s, 'BAMBI' WOWED ENGLAND WITH HIS WHACKY CATCHPHRASE 'EDUCATION! EDUCATION! EDUCATION!' ALAS, HE GOT IN WITH THE WRONG CROWD, FIRED HIS MANAGER, FELL APART, AND NOW RUNS A SLOT-MACHINE JOINT IN...

The Tories must help the poor: John Bercow says it's time the Conservative party undertook to raise aid to developing countries.
November 6, 2004... 'We want more British aid to be distributed from London and less from Brussels. It's time to bring powers back to Britain.' So said Michael Howard in his speech to the Conservative conference in Bournemouth. He's right. We do. It is. Yet at...

Searching for Stan: Jane Kelly on the sudden disappearance of her fat, drooling but beloved cat.
November 6, 2004... I feel like Job. Everything of significance is being stripped from me. In August my flat in west London was badly flooded; on 25 September I lost my job; on Monday lunch-time, 25 October, my beloved cat Stan, apparently terrified at the sight...

Mind your language.
November 6, 2004... 'Whodunnit?' asked my husband mildly as I threw The Da Vinci Code into the cardboard box intended for kindling, next to the hearth. 'Whyreadit? That's the question.' The Da Vinci Code, which follows so many of the cliches of pulp...

The dead language of politicians: if you can't get a straight answer from your MP, says Rod Liddle, it is because he has been reading too many evasive job ads.
November 6, 2004... Here's a job advertisement which appeared in the Guardian this week. Please read it and see if, by the end, you are any the wiser as to a) what the organisation does and b) what duties would be required of the successful applicant. One...

Yearning to breathe free: Radek Sikorski says Russia is using strong-arm tactics to see that its man is returned in Ukraine's presidential elections.
November 6, 2004... The architecture of Independence Square in central Kiev is late Brezhnev but the ambience is Prague 1989. Groups of people stand around tables scattered with the propaganda of the various candidates, or make impassioned speeches to cameras. The...

Western aggression: John Laughland on how the US and Britain are intervening in Ukraine's elections.
November 6, 2004... A few years ago, a friend of mine was sent to Kiev by the British government to teach Ukrainians about the Western democratic system. His pupils were young reformers from western Ukraine, affiliated to the Conservative party. When they produced...

Do little people go to heaven? If the three-foot-tall hominids of Flores were rational, did they have immortal souls?
November 6, 2004... When they showed on television the cave on the island of Flores where the remains of little people had been found, I felt, I admit, a Yeatsian frisson that the world of politics cannot give. It was not delight at a new branch on the hat-stand...

Losing patients: managerialism is corrupting medicine, says Theodore Dalrymple, and keeping sick people out of hospital.
November 6, 2004... The corruption of modern Britain is not a matter of money passed surreptitiously under the table; it is much worse and more serious than that. It is the corrosion of our very souls by managerial ism that is turning Britain into a very corrupt...

Love in the ruins: James Mumford visits the tenth circle of hell--a Spanish shanty town for drug addicts--and finds hope there.
November 6, 2004... On the outskirts of Madrid, on the other side of the M40 from the terracotta tower blocks of Spanish suburbia, there is a place locals refer to as Baranquilla. It translates. 'a small chasm or cliff'. Once a rubbish dump, it is now Spain's...

Four moments of truth--two clear wins, one leap back, one road not taken.(City And Suburban)
November 6, 2004... Relax. You are under no obligation to read the small print. There is a clause in Europe's constitution about bringing our economic policies--money and tax--into line with our neighbours', but it must have got past the Prime Minister, because he...

The new tabloid 'Times lite' is in competition with the Mail.(Media Studies)
November 6, 2004... The decision to kill off the broadsheet Times is a momentous one. The Times a tabloid! Who would have believed it two years ago? The paper has been almost exactly the same shape since 1822. Before that it had been smaller, though not so small...

Long live a stubbornly centralised England.(Another Voice)
November 6, 2004... Unlike forks in the road. important junctures in human affairs are often identified only in retrospect: often years after the event. An example, I believe, is the referendum in the north-east of England whose result you may know by the time you...

Israel's rapacious wall.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 6, 2004... From Deborah Maccoby Sir: Anton La Guardia ('A just wall', 30 October) is spot-on in pointing out that Israel's brutal wall is pushing the Palestinians 'into reservations'. I have just returned from a week in Bethlehem, where I was warmly...

A pair of prats.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 6, 2004... From Herb Greer Sir: Quite a week for the Harold Pinter family. First Mrs Pinter makes a prat of herself by joining the laughable Guardian campaign to write idiotic anti-Bush letters to the voters of Clark County, Ohio--thus...

Managing anger.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 6, 2004... From Martin Hogg Sir: Brendan O'Neill is assuredly correct when he asserts the rightful position of auger as a positive emotion in some circumstances ('The anti-angry brigade', 23 October). We have, after all, a rather authoritative...

Rising tide of waste.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 6, 2004... From Lizzie Slater Sir: I read Ross Clark's article on the government's recycling initiatives with a sense of profound weariness ('Rubbish policies', 23 October). In between the cliched complaints about fortnightly bin collections which...

Not my style.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 6, 2004... From Francis King Sir: In his review of Neville and June Braybrookes' Olivia Manning (Books. 30 October), Philip Hensher takes me to task, as editor, for not having 'done something to improve the Braybrookes' plodding prose'. That was not...

Variety in Brixton.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 6, 2004... From Lesley Taylor Sir: While I agree with most of Rod Liddle's article on supermarkets ('Free market my eye!', 23 October), I must take issue with him in one respect. He says that London is worse than Wiltshire for local shops, and cites...

A slur on my comrades.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 6, 2004... From Francis Bennion Sir: I am an Englishman living near Exeter. I was interested to learn from Jane Gardam's review of Doris Lessing's Time Bites (Books, 23 October) that the latter had told girls of Exeter School that when she was young...

Rian all at sea.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 6, 2004... From Jeffrey Boutwell Sir: Is Rian Malan from the 'no need to check facts, let's .just make it up' school of journalism? In his letter (2 October) he alleges that the Pugwash Conferences workshop he was invited to in February 2004 was held...

Longer still.(Letters)(Letter to the Editor)
November 6, 2004... From T. T. King Sir: Paul Johnson (And another thing, 23 October) asks whether any reader knows if Proust wrote a longer sentence than Victor Hugo's 823 words mentioned by Graham Robb in his life of that author. By my admittedly...

Autumn, grand despoiler of beauty, and truth-teller.(And Another Thing)
November 6, 2004... So autumn has conic again, with her blushing and animating hand, searing and spotting, tinting and flaming, making hectic and encrimsoning, concealing decay, death and coming annihilation behind a mesmerising anarchy of colour. I have been out...

Christmas shopping at the Burlington Arcade.(Advertising Feature)(Advertisement)
November 6, 2004... Burlington Arcade is possibly the most beautiful covered walkway in Europe. Built in 1819, this oasis of calm and monument to quality is one of London's hidden treasures. What will you find under its vaulted ceilings? Impeccable service,...

Magic mushrooms: Elisabeth Luard investigates the allure of the truffle.(Luxury Goods)
November 6, 2004... It can't be all in the mind. No one would pay silly prices for a lump of subterranean mushroom whose scent is not so very different from that of any other fungus. The secret, I am reliably informed, is the pheromones. 'Of course it is,'...

Shelf life.(Old books)
November 6, 2004... The man from the electricity company, before making a dive for the meter under the stairs, looked at my shelves and said, 'Have you read all these books, then?' Read them? Certainly not. It doesn't do a book any good to read it. It's like...

Style council.(Cigarette holders)
November 6, 2004... The past 20 years have not been happy times for lovers of pure, unadulterated glamour. The global hegemony of Anglo-Saxon culture has done to style what the Crusades did to Arab-Christian understanding--as any glance at the baseball-capped...

Cruel but delicious.(Foie gras)
November 6, 2004... In most people the mention of foie gras provokes either horror or delight--there is little middle ground. On the one hand, the production methods used are, some say, cruel in the extreme. On the other hand, the taste of a fresh, swollen duck or...

Fever pitch.(The directors' box)
November 6, 2004... Odd, really. As a ten-year-old I attended Anfield Road primary school, a corner kick from the Kop. As a teenager, I must have spent hundreds of Saturday afternoons leering along the city's pavements, my inanities blurred by the background roar...

Old masters.(Vintage cars)
November 6, 2004... Picture the scene: you are cresting a hill on a clear summer's morning and the road ahead is blissfully clear. Your senses are alive to everything, from the temperature of the road surface to the routing of the telegraph poles peppering its...

A fine broth of a writer.(Book Review)
November 6, 2004... PATRICK O'BRIAN: THE MAKING OF A NOVELIST by Nikolai Tolstoy Century, 20, pp. [pounds sterling] 512, ISBN 0712670254 18 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848 THE FINAL, UNFINISHED VOYAGE OF JACK AUBREY by Patrick...

Casanova puts his case.(Book Review)
November 6, 2004... CONVERSATIONS IN BOLZANO by Sandor Marai Viking, 14.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 294, ISBN 0670915343 12.99 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848 One of the strangest successes of recent publishing must be Sandor...

Stooping, but not to conquer.(Book Review)
November 6, 2004... STEPHEN FRY'S INCOMPLETE AND UTTER HISTORY OF CLASSICAL MUSIC by Stephen Fry, as told to Tim Lihoreau Bortree, 16.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 320, ISBN 0752225340 14.99 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848 Here...

From Harlesden to Zaire.(Book Review)
November 6, 2004... FROM BLUES TO RAP by Roy Kerridge Finbarr International (Folkestone, Kent CT20 2QQ, tel: 01303 250316), 1.90 [pounds sterling], pp. 20, ISBN 0952950049 1.99 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848 The really...

When the going was bad.(Book Review)
November 6, 2004... PUBLIC ENEMIES by Bryan Burrough Allen Lane, 20 [pounds sterling], pp. 624, ISBN 0713998288 18 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848 Billed on the cover as 'The True Story of America's Greatest Crime Wave', this...

When the laughing had to stop.(Book Review)
November 6, 2004... ADRIAN MOLE AND THE WEAPONS OF MASS DESTRUCTION by Sue Townsend Michael Joseph, 16.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 460, ISBN 0718146891 14.99 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848 It has been Sue Townsend's misfortune...

The great enemy of dogma.(Book Review)
November 6, 2004... AN END TO SUFFERING: THE BUDDHA IN THE WORLD by Pankaj Mishra Picador; 17.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 422, ISBN 0330392786 15.99 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848 Nobody could accuse Pankaj Mishra of lacking...

A charming chap after all.(Book Review)
November 6, 2004... WINNER TAKES ALL by Michael Winner Robson Books, 17.95 [pounds sterling], pp. 360, ISBN 1861057342 15.95 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848 Sad to report, but this book is a gem. Why sad? Because Michael...

Orphan of the Raj.(Book Review)
November 6, 2004... OLD FILTH by Jane Gardam Chatto, 15.99 [pounds sterling], pp. 270. ISBN 070117756X 12.99 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848 Old Filth is a barrister, a QC and unlike Trollope's great Old Bailey cross-examiner...

Dancing and death.(Book Review)
November 6, 2004... MARGOT FONTEYN by Meredith Daneman Viking, 20 [pounds sterling], pp. 654, ISBN 0670913375 16 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848 I thought at first that this was going to be a truly, marvellous book, and in...

Cool, calm and now collected.(Book Review)
November 6, 2004... LETTER FROM AMERICA, 1946-2004 by Alistair Cooke Allen Lane, 25 [pounds sterling], pp. 503, ISBN 0713998342 23 [pounds sterling] (plus 2.25 [pounds sterling] p&p) 0870 800 4848 How did he do it? To listen to Alistair Cooke's weekly letters...

Force for good: John McEwen on the work of Paula Rego, whose latest exhibition is at Tate Britain.(Arts)
November 6, 2004... This is the first in a series of short sharp shows devoted to leading British artists which Tate Britain proposes to stage over the coming years. According to Stephen Deuchar, Tate Britain's director, Rego was easily the most popular choice,...

Unexpected twists.
November 6, 2004... Still Life in 20th Century Italy Estorick Collection of Modern Italian Art, until 19 December There is a fort on a rocky headland, the dark Atlantic, and, in the foreground, people dancing on the lit terrace of a seaside cafe. One can...

Beyond words.(Music)
November 6, 2004... Sitting in the Globe Theatre towards the end of last season, I began to have one of those out-of-mind experiences which only music is supposed to be able to give. The play in question was Measure for Measure, always known to be a difficult one...

The next big thing.(Olden but golden)
November 6, 2004... You're probably sick of reading about John Peel, the Radio One disc jockey who died of a heart attack last week and whose passing was marked with the solemn, exhaustive media coverage usually reserved for great statesmen. This was, after all,...

From crisis to crisis.(Theater Review)
November 6, 2004... How To Lose Friends Arts Becket Theatre Royal Haymarket Love Me Tonight Hampstead Here's the problem. A friend and colleague has turned his life story into a play and he's starring in it in the West End. I'm the reviewer. Praise...

Looking good.(Opera Review)
November 6, 2004... Les Paladins Barbican Don Giovanni ENO Rameau's Les Paladins, which arrived briefly at the Barbican Theatre, was spectacular, amazing. Or rather this production was. It was one of those occasions when so much happens on stage that you...

Closing the gap.(Jazz)
November 6, 2004... Jazz and classical music represent two self-contained musical cultures which have, for the most part, studiously avoided each other's orbit. But there's always been a certain amount of tinkering at their respective margins. George Gershwin's...

Fast track.(Radio)
November 6, 2004... It goes without saying that contemporary Formula One racing drivers are extremely brave people. Driving at speeds that can reach 200mph between metal barriers requires courage, boldness, perfect judgment, swift reactions and, perhaps, a lack of...

Trick or cheat?(Television)
November 6, 2004... Old formulae are desperately reworked in order to fill the endless hours of television time. (Did you know that the BBC broadcasts five hours of TV every hour, in this country alone?) The mathematician and code expert Simon Singh, whom I bumped...

Difficult customers.(The turf)
November 6, 2004... It didn't start well at Lingfield on Saturday. I discovered too late that on my walk across the field from the station I had been dribbling 1 [pounds sterling] coins, carefully saved for Mrs Oakley's car-parking fund, through a hole in my...

Taurine France.(Bullfighting)
November 6, 2004... It has been whispered this season that the still young prodigy Julian Lopez, El Juli--he had his 22nd birthday last month--may be past his best. They are saying that he is out of sorts, he needs a long holiday, he lacks total commitment, he...

Double standards.(High life)
November 6, 2004... New York Bright Lights; Big City, Jay McInerney's breakthrough opus focusing on New York City yuppies, was published 20 years ago this month, and some of his idioms--such as Bolivian marching powder--have become part of the English...

Incredible journey.(Low life)
November 6, 2004... My boy has an undeniably boring life. He's either at school or standing behind a small-town cheap-jack grocer's till. The child who cornered Mr Blair the other week and asked him what he proposed to do to make our lives more exciting spoke for...

Scrambled eggs.(Singular life)
November 6, 2004... I don't mind rude letters, really I don't. I don't mind much, actually, which probably illustrates a fatal weakness in my character. But I do mind having eggs thrown at me. There I was opening my front door the other evening and, wham, splat,...

Pause for thought.(Bridge)
November 6, 2004... I READ an extraordinary story in the papers recently about the son of a woman described as a 'champion bridge player', who, while she was dying of a terminal illness, sent her a letter full of rage which he assumed she'd be too ill to read. She...

Best of Pals.(Chess)
November 6, 2004... The British Chess Federation Book of the Year award has in my opinion quite rightly gone to Pal Benko: My Life Games and Compositions, by Pal Benko and Jeremy Silman (Siles Press, 31.50 pounds sterling]). Benko was twice a world championship...

All the rage.(Competition)
November 6, 2004... In Competition No. 2365 you were invited to supply a piece, written in the style of a fashion editor, expressing enthusiasm for either see-through trousers for men or full plate armour for women. Two confessions (not apologies). First, I...

1689: Barry.(Crossword)
November 6, 2004... The unclued lights are of a kind. ACROSS 1 Amino-acid affected old relation (5, hyphened) 6 Can be taught to change due to message (8) 12 Cruelty of ravens? (10) 14 Sheaf on end on German islet (4) 15 He tells tales...

Spectator Wine Club.
November 6, 2004... There are whole department stores in Britain that have not yet put up their Christmas lights, yet here we are at the Wine Club with the first of our two Yuletide offers. This one is from our old friends at Corney & Barrow; it includes some...

Peerless Wigan.(Spectator Sport)
November 6, 2004... Wise guys steer clear of soccer till the clocks go back. The long muddy slurp and slog of winter are now properly under way. Mind you, this time autumn's warm-up lap has offered an instructive preamble if not, as we shall doubtless see by...

Dear Mary.(Your Problems Solved)
November 6, 2004... Q. My wife and I were recently delighted to receive what appeared at first glance to be an invitation to the wedding of the eldest son of friends. On closer examination we were less pleased to discover that the wedding is to take place in Las...

Outsource those jobs.
November 13, 2004... The defeat of John Kerry has been widely portrayed as a poke in the eye for liberal values and for prevarication in the face of global terrorism. Rather less has been made of the defeat of a third strand of Kerry philosophy: protectionism. One...

Diary.
November 13, 2004... I broke my toe in Minneapolis. This is far from the glamorous image of leaving my heart in San Francisco and infinitely more painful. I stubbed it on a faux Chippendale dining-room table leg during a breakfast meeting at the hotel. It was a hot...

Now ministers are trying to win their case by dividing the bloodsports lobby.(Politics)
November 13, 2004... Events are now moving very fast. By this time next week, the Bill to ban hunting will have received royal assent. The light to halt this oppressive piece of legislation is moving away from Parliament, into the courts and, probably, on to the...

The Spectator's notes.
November 13, 2004... The Prince of Wales will be 56 on Sunday. So will Paul Dacre, editor of the Daily Mail. It is interesting that these two men were born on the same day, since observing their parallel careers tells you quite a lot about modern Britain. There are...

The beginning of hope in the Middle East: Boris Johnson says that the end of Yasser Arafat--the man who brought so much suffering to his own people--could be the opportunity for lasting peace.(Cover Story)
November 13, 2004... But why did he do it? I asked the dark and bony young man in the yarmulka, still clearing up the scene of the murders. We were standing at the blackened steel counter of Shimmi's cheese and olive shop, where three people had yesterday been...

Peanut.
November 13, 2004... The Blairs are taking a well-earned rest. WOW! I'M PRESIDENT FOR ANOTHER 4 YEARS! WOW! [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] WE DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM! I DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM I GUESS MY ONLY FRIEND IS TONY BLAIR I DIDN'T VOTE FOR HIM...

The meaning of death: soon there will be calls to 'do something' about the Berkshire rail crash. They should be resisted.
November 13, 2004... 'Almost all passenger deaths in transport accidents in Great Britain occur on the roads.' Social Trends No. 34, Office for National Statistics. They are not given much to hyperbole, rhetoric and overstatement, those bean-counting monkeys...

The silence of the generals: Bruce Anderson on the scandalous case of Trooper Williams, who has been charged with murder in Iraq.
November 13, 2004... It sometimes seems as if we no longer know how to think about our soldiers, or how to treat them. Last week, three men of the Black Watch fell in battle in Iraq. A sad event certainly, but it was hardly a reason for national mourning. Yet much...

The strongman of Baghdad: Andrew Gilligan on the murky past of Iyad Allawi, who this week cleared the way for the attack on Fallujah.
November 13, 2004... The first recorded political act of Iyad Allawi--now the interim prime minister of Iraq, then the student organiser for Saddam Hussein's Baath party--struck some as a little extreme, even by the standards of Sixties campus politics. 'We were at...

Mind your language.
November 13, 2004... In Bevis Hillier's fat final volume of his biography of Betjeman, he quotes a chrestomathy of book reviewers' cliches taken from a letter to The Spectator by Jocelyn Brooke, published on 3 January 1958. It is interesting to see how critical...

Accidental hero: Rocco Buttiglione talks to Daniel Hannan about homosexuality, homophobia and 'the morbid totalitarianism of the Left'.(Interview)
November 13, 2004... Martyrdom often seems to bring, at the end, a sense of elation. Thomas More was plainly on a high as he was led to the block, getting off a couple of memorable quips to the headsman. Rocco Buttiglione is in a similar mood. Buoyed up by the...

Second opinion.
November 13, 2004... What is the purpose of life'? Is push-penny really as good as poetry, as Bentham contends? Surely there can have been few of us who have not sometimes wondered whether all our frantic activity--mainly getting and spending--is quite as necessary...

The death of decency: James Bartholomew on why bravery, kindness, modesty, generosity and restraint are fast disappearing from Britain--but not from George Bush's America.
November 13, 2004... Those who depend on the BBC for news are still puzzling over why America voted for that bad George Bush. One reason that got little or no airtime was that they liked his domestic policy. Our state broadcasting station gave the impression that...

Ancient & modern.
November 13, 2004... First Gordon Brown removed billions of pounds from our pensions; now he is about to land 20,000 pensioners with vast tax bills by cancelling a perfectly legal 'equity release' scheme. Ancient Greeks and Romans would have thought it beyond...

Blunkett coverage: the Home Secretary has set up 1,109 new bodies with a budget between them of more than 12 billion [pounds sterling].
November 13, 2004... 'Correctional services' sounds like something you would see on a card in a Soho phone booth. Isn't that the sort of painful practice which finished the television career of bondage enthusiast Frank Bough? But titter ye not, as the late Frankie...

A spectator sees most of the City's game: Christopher Fildes on the comedy of a financial world changing at breakneck speed.
November 13, 2004... My arrival was marked by a memorandum: 'LIBEL. Mr Christopher Fildes and Mr Auberon Waugh have joined the staff of The Spectator. As from today, The Spectator is no longer insured against libel. Gatley's Libel and Slander may be consulted in my...

Handover day in the City as Cazenove gives up its war of independence.(City And Suburban)
November 13, 2004... It had to happen. A few years ago I announced the demise of the City of London. The old place in its old form had enjoyed a great run but was on its way out, and would now be relaunched as Hong Kong West. As the flag comes down from Cazenove's...